A national gay rights group on Wednesday called on the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board to investigate the disclosure reports filed by groups promoting an amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, saying they're hiding the names of their donors.

The Human Rights Campaign accused the pro-amendment National Organization for Marriage of illegally trying to avoid disclosing the names of individual donors to the November ballot campaign. The disclosure form filed Tuesday by the National Organization for Marriage's Minnesota Marriage Fund said it received contributions of $284,123 last year, but the form named no individual donors.

Similarly, the Minnesota Family Council's Marriage Protection Fund listed $346,994 in receipts but named no individual donors, just a $134,571 contribution from the Minnesota Family Council itself and $212,423 from unspecified "unregistered associations."

Jeff Sigurdson, assistant executive director for the campaign finance board, said he saw nothing at first glance on the disclosure forms indicating any violations of the board's rules. He said the Human Rights Campaign, like any citizen or group, is free to file a formal complaint with the board if it believes there was a violation, and the board would decide whether to investigate based on what's in the complaint.

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Leaders of the National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council said they fully complied with the state's disclosure requirements.

Altogether, the major groups campaigning to pass the amendment reported raising more than $1.2 million as of Dec. 31. The largest, Minnesota for Marriage, took in $830,000, including $350,000 from the Minnesota Catholic Conference, $250,000 from the National Organization for Marriage and $226,000 from the Minnesota Family Council, plus a handful of mostly small donations from individuals.

The Human Rights Campaign noted that the main group working to defeat the gay marriage ban, Minnesotans United for All Families, reported $1.2 million in contributions from more than 5,000 individuals named on its disclosure form.

"This is part of (the National Organization for Marriage's) systematic attempt across the country to oppose public disclosure and hide its donors," Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solomonese said in a statement.

National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown said the Human Rights Campaign has a record of trying to intimidate and harass donors to ballot measures against same-sex marriage.

"They're attempting to silence those of us who believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman," Brown said. "We won't be silenced, and we won't be intimidated."

Brown said the National Organization for Marriage's donors are small and contribute to the organization as a whole, not to any specific ballot initiative, so their names don't need to be disclosed when the organization's board decides where to spend its money.

John Helmberger, CEO of the Minnesota Family Council and chairman of Minnesota for Marriage, also said they followed the state's rules in every respect. He said there was only one donor to the council's Marriage Protection Fund, and that was the Minnesota Family Council.

The Minnesota Catholic Conference, which represents the state's Roman Catholic bishops, said Tuesday that it raised $750,000 for the pro-amendment campaign. It stressed that all of the money came from investment income from three dioceses, and none of it came from collection plates or other individual or parish donations.